ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	1 August 2009 vs 15 June 2009
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
PassMark - G3D Mark		151
PassMark - G2D Mark		32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2273
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2273

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RS880	G96
Launch date	1 August 2009	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	1554
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Transistor count	181 million	314 million
Floating-point performance		80 gflops
Pipelines		32
Texture fill rate		8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		14 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		16 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0